Bod-Inc: O-056
Ovidius Naso, Publius
Fasti (comm. Paulus Marsus).
Analysis of Content
a1v Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in Fastos' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam mihi ex longa peregrinatione redire tandem tua quoque pace . . .’ Explicit: tandem ueniamus On this and Marsus's mention of Antonius Constantius see Martinus Phileticus, In Corruptores Latinitatis, ed. M. A. Pincelli, Edizione Nazionale dei testi umanistici, 4 (Rome, 2000), 114.
a2r Marsus, Paulus: ‘Ouidii vita'. Incipit: ‘[P]ublius Ouidius Naso Pelignus Sulmone ex equestri natus est ordine . . .’ Explicit: interpretationem ueniendum
a3r Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 1.] Incipit: ‘[E]t cum proprium sit poetarum proponere inuocare narrare . . .’ Explicit: est lano dicatus On Marsus' commentatorial method see A. Grafton and L. Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities (London, 1986), 84-5. On his sources see Phileticus, ed. Pincelli, 45-6, 74, 109,
a3r [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 1]. Ov. Fast. 1.
e6v Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in ii librum Fastorum' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[V]ereor ego, suauissime Corneli, nequi sint qui me longiorem . . .’ Explicit: luuentæ profuturus. Vale
e7r Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 2.] Incipit: ‘ “[I]anus habet”. Numa cum anno Romuli duos addidisset menses . . .’ Explicit: alias diximus
e7r [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 2]. Ov. Fast. 2.
i8v Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in tertium' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[T]ertia nunc nostri subeunt monumenta laboris | Scipiadum antiqui generis uenerata Georgi'; 14 distichs.
k1r Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 3.] Incipit: ‘ “[B]ellice depositis”. Ordinem mensium per Romulum, et postea per Numam . . .’ Explicit: Dianæ sacrificandum
k1r [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 3]. Ov. Fast. 3.
o3r Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in quartum librum Fastorum' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[F]estinatum tibi scilicet Corneli opus maturantem et e medio cursu . . .’ Explicit: utilitatis allatura
o3v Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 4.] Incipit: ‘ “[A]lma faue dixi geminorum mater amorum”. Rationem huius mensis quem nunc quarto loco . . .’ Explicit: Augustum Apollinem Vestam
o3v [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 4]. Ov. Fast. 4.
s7r Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in v librum Fastorum' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[C]um tibi crescit opus luxo Cornelia nostrum | Et spatium admissis acceleramus equis'; 24 distichs.
s7v Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 5.] Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uaeritis unde putem Maio data nomina mensi”. Maium Romulus tertium posuit de cuius nomine . . .’ Explicit: de eodem loquitur
s7v [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 5]. Ov. Fast. 5.
y2v Marsus, Paulus: ‘Praefatio in sextum librum Fastorum' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[]genus antiquum soboles uenerata Georgi | Scipiadum et ueneris decus indelebile terris'; 31 hexameters.
y3r Marsus, Paulus: [Commentary on Fasti, book 6.] Incipit: ‘ “[H]ic quoquæ mensis habet dubias in nomine causas”. Junius Maium sequitur aut ex parte populi ut supra . . .’ Explicit: omnium musarum effigies
y3r [Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Fasti [book 6]. Ov. Fast. 6.
[Rum3v] Marsus, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[H]aec illa sunt, G. Corneli, quae nos octo antea annis in Ouidianos fastos . . .’ Explicit: præteriisse iure possit
[Rum4r] [Marsus, Paulus]: ‘Ratio astrologiae' [addressed to] Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[S]ed proposueram, G. Corneli, repetiturum me in fine commentariorum . . .’ Explicit: mihi posteri sempiternam
[Rum5r] [Marsus, Paulus: Calendar.] Incipit: ‘Calendis Januariis. Festum Junonis et Aesculapii. iiii nonas . . .’
[Rum5v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ianque opus exegi iam uos hinc ite labores | Ite mei totumque pedes efferte per orbem'; 20 hexameters.
[Rum6r] Ursus, Robertus: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to] Paulus Marsus. Incipit: ‘Fastorum quisquis latii monumenta tenere | Signaque cum causis lapsa uel orta cupit'; 7 distichs.
[Rum6r] [Colophon.] Incipit: ‘Relligiosae litterariae sodalitati uiminali | et uniuersae academiae latinae | ad uiuentium posteror. q. usum | . . .’ The colophon is printed in the form of an inscription on a cippus.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 24 Dec. 1482. Folio.
Remarks: The date in the colophon reads ‘MCCCCLXXXII . . . ix. Cal. Ianvar.', and it is clear from a note by Marsus that this means 1482 rather than 1481.
Collation
Collation: a–s8 t–z & [con] ꝶ6.
References
ISTC: io00170000
Hain: HC 12238;
Goff: Goff O‑170;
BMC: BMC V 322;
Proctor: Pr 4610;
Others: Rhodes 1290; Sheppard 3836-8.
LCN: 14441274
Copies
Copy number: O-056(1)
Wanting [Rum6].
Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf with double gold fillets on each cover and gold-tooled spine; stamped with the arms of Michael Wodhull in gilt on the upper cover; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on the lower cover. Joints of boards weak.
Size: 318 × 222 × 41 mm.
Size of leaf: 302 × 207 mm.
Some early marginal annotations, consisting mainly of extraction of key words.
Two- to eight-line initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); arms on the upper cover. Purchased in 1803 for £0. 16. 0: see Books Purchased (1803), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.23.
Copy number: O-056(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 323 × 227 × 39 mm.
Size of leaf: 317 × 210 mm.
Early marginal annotations in gatherings a–e only, apparently in the hand of Bernardus Adelman (see below), and consisting of extraction of key words and ‘nota' marks.
Two- to eight-line initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Bernardus Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1457-1523); name on the recto of the front endleaf. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; purchased at his sale (1835), lot 2924 for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 21.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 2.5.
Copy number: O-056(3)
Bound with:
1. Publius Ovidius Naso, Heroides. Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 8 Nov. 1482 (O‑060).
2. Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satyrae, with commentary by Bartholomaeus Fontius. Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 6 Dec. 1482 (P‑138(3)).
Leaf [Rum6] repaired.
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half parchment with marbled paper boards.
Size: 324 × 221 × 58 mm.
Size of leaf: 313 × 212 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear notes, including comments on and corrections to the text, and line numbers in some poems, also underlining in the commentary in black ink. Line numbers have been supplied in the other items in the same hand, thus suggesting that the three items have probably been travelling together from soon after they were printed.
Provenance: Unidentified Dominican house; inscription in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on a3r of item 1: ‘Conuentus S. Marie Gratiarum Montis Cerignoni Ordinis Predicatorum'. Marco Lazzari; armorial book-stamp on a2r of item 1. Robert Finch (1783-1830); see Finch catalogue 209. Taylor Institution, University of Oxford; bequeathed by Finch; book-plate: ‘Bequeathed to the University by Robert Finch, M. A., of Balliol College'; shelfmark in blue ink: ‘V 190'. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1921.
SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1482.1(3).
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